Forte's Sprites

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The two biggest issues are these:

1. You're using WAY too many colors.

I tried to count the colors in these first three swords and you're using a -minimum- of seven colors each. I'm not even sure if I got all of them, either.
You're using at least twice the amount of colors that you need on each sprite.

2. You need a whoooole lot more contrast.
There is barely any difference between most of your shades. You have way too many unnecessary in-between shades, and upping your contrast will not only reduce your color count, but also fix the redundant shades issue.